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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Alice in Wonderland review – dive down a sublime theatrical rabbit hole

Purvi Parmar as the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland at the New Vic theatre.
Pure theatre … Purvi Parmar as the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland at the New Vic theatre. Photograph: Andrew Billington

Forget about rabbit holes and mirrors, this Alice finds her Wonderland via the stage door. Following a magician into the wings, she trips on a trap door and the rest is pure theatre. In a rich and hallucinatory production first seen in 2011, director Theresa Heskins matches the imagination of Lewis Carroll with a theatrical inventiveness of her own.

Theatrical inventiveness … Eleanor Fransch as Alice.
Theatrical inventiveness … Eleanor Fransch as Alice. Photograph: Andrew Billington
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